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<div><p>California remains under a court order to reduce its prison population. As Katie Orr reports from Sacramento, Governor Jerry Brown is trying to use his budget to get the state some more time.</p></div><p>A federal three judge panel has given California until the middle of April to reduce is prison population to about 137 percent of capacity.&nbsp; But Brown is basing several items in his budget on the assumption California will get a two-year extension of that deadline. Brown has long maintained the state has done enough to reduce prison overcrowding.</p>Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:07:14 +0000Katie Orr - Captial Public Radio26971 at http://kvpr.orgBrown Uses Budget to Push for More Time on Prisons